Southern Reconstruction

by David Sims
QUOTES FROM “Aspects of the Family and Public Life of Antoine Dubuclet: Louisiana’s Black State Treasurer, 1868-1878,” by Charles Vincent, published in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 66, No. 1, Spring, 1981.
“Until recently, Reconstruction scholarship…

by Ted O’Keefe
SHORTLY AFTER nightfall on September 8, 1865, a train steamed south from Orangeburg, South Carolina, through countryside which had been devastated by General William Sherman’s troops only a few months before. Among the passengers was a gaunt and battle-weary…